There’s something about a predominantly white kitchen that sets our hearts aflutter: its bright, crisp aesthetic can make a home feel more expansive and bring a sense of calm. Many homeowners, however, tend to be a little skittish about white kitchens, as they have a reputation for being difficult to maintain and keep clean.
This isn’t necessarily the case—at least not with the following seven tips. Don’t let a little grease and grime deter you from installing the white cabinetry, counters, sinks, and appliances of your dreams. Read on to find out how to keep your white kitchen at its most brilliant.
1. Protect Cabinetry and Work Surfaces From Direct Sunlight
Direct sunlight can cause white cabinets or laminated surfaces to turn yellow. To prevent this, install curtains or blinds, or tinted glass windows, to protect your cabinetry and worktops from strong sunlight.
Tinted glass windows protect this white kitchen’s luminous sheen.
2. Always Turn On the Exhaust Fan
Grease particles from cooking are the biggest cause of staining in kitchens over time. To stop grease from accumulating on your cabinets and counters, switch on the exhaust fan or range hood as soon as you begin cooking.
An apartment in the heart of the historical center of Beaune boasts a white kitchen.
3. Clean Cupboards With Vinegar and Baking Soda
To keep your white cupboards looking bright and fresh, create a cleaning solution with one cup of vinegar, one tablespoon of baking soda, and two cups of warm water. Dip a rag in this solution, wring out the access liquid, then wipe down your cupboards. Do this at least once a month.
A cleansing solution of vinegar, baking soda, and water prevents staining in white kitchens.
4. Soak Sinks in Bleach
White sinks can look grimy pretty quickly, and the best way to prevent signs of wear is through household bleach. To prevent it from running straight down the drain, line the bottom of your sink with paper towels, then wet them with bleach. Leave the bleach-soaked towels for about half an hour, then remove them, and rinse the sink with warm water. If you’d rather not use bleach for sink stains, one natural alternative is to fill your sink with club soda and lemon juice, let the solution soak, then rise with warm water.
A bleach bath lifts stains from white sinks.
5. Brush Away Tile Grout
If your kitchen has a white tile backsplash, any dirt that accumulates on the grout will seem more obvious, so be sure to take care of this regularly. Create a paste with baking soda and water, and apply it to the grout. Put some vinegar into a spray bottle, and spritz a coat of vinegar onto the paste, then scrub the grout with a toothbrush and rinse off the mixture.
Keep your white backsplash, such as Porcelain and More finish, free of grimy grout lines.
6. Remove Stains From Laminates
To get rid of stains on white laminate counters, mix household cleaning detergent with baking soda—one part detergent to three parts baking soda usually does the trick—and apply this solution directly onto stains, then scrub everything down with a nylon brush. Wipe the countertop with a damp cloth, then dry the surfaces quickly, as laminates are sensitive to excessive moisture.
Neutral colors and streamlined appliances like the Miele oven, stovetop, and refrigerator, along with the Espace Cuisine cabinets, create an elevated interior.
7. Prevent and Remove Stains From Natural Stone Surfaces
Natural stone surfaces like marble or granite are porous, meaning they absorb liquid much more quickly than stone composite or laminate surfaces, so clean any spillage immediately so that it doesn’t seep into your counters. If a stain does develop, one way you can get rid of it is with a solution of hydrogen peroxide with a smidge of ammonia.
Onda barstools by Stua from Design Within Reach surround a 13-foot Calacatta marble island. Custom white aluminum cabinets float above the kitchen appliances by Miele with a stovetop from Wolf and a range hood by Airmec Bello.
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GB: Let’s go back to basics really – the whole thing about being in a chemist shop with your mum – her believing in medicine and the effects of medicine and not believing in art and thinking art was crap but believing whatever a doctor told her or whatever the packaging or medicines told her. How did you go from that kind of recognition to it becoming a ready-made or found art – isn’t that what Pharmacy is – I mean the medicine cabinets are ready-mades?
DH: Yeah. They are.
GB: Out of the whole of life, the whole of everything in life that you see and experience, why did you pick on a chemist shop as a thing to pick?
DH: For that very reason. I mean I suppose out of confidence, because people have confidence in [medicine]. Because I had a confidence in art that comes from God knows where – I was thinking I like this and I like the way it works, I like the way it brightens people’s lives up, the way that people believe in it, but I was having difficulty in convincing the people around me that it was worth believing in. And then I noticed that they were believing in medicine in exactly the same way that I wanted them to believe in art and they weren’t doing it.
GB: What without any proof or backup at all for why they should believe in medicine?
DH: Well, obviously there’s backup except they weren’t reading the side-effects – they weren’t looking at it logically. They were looking at shiny colors and bright shapes and nice white coats and cleanliness and they were going right – this is going to be my saviour. And it didn’t ring true – it didn’t seem believable. It seemed that art had a lot more going for it in terms of something that was going to heal you – it just seemed much more believable. It seemed to encompass more. I mean they don’t have cancer pills with a picture of a cancer victim on the front so that you know that’s for you because that’s the way that you look in the morning – they don’t sell it like that – they remove all the death when that’s basically what they’re all about. And it seems to me that you’ve got to face up to things.
GB: I think the basic question is why in the arena of life, sickness, death – why was that the first place that you settled on to take a ready-made from?
DH: I just think it’s so strong. It’s about confidence – it had such a strong confidence. I mean it’s about trickery – there seems to be a lot of trickery going on – it seems like there’s less trickery in art then there is in medicine. I think art is a hell of a lot better for you than medicine, in the long run. You don’t get a great long list of side-effects – or maybe you do!
GB: You’ve also talked about the formal reasons for doing it – that the packaging was incredibly minimal and wasn’t sort of polluted by commerce. You have to have it – you can’t decide whether to pick it – you’re prescribed it – you don’t make a choice, you’re told that you’ve got to have it not that you want to have it.
DH: In the supermarket there’s a massive battle going between brands – Coca Cola fighting KP Crisps – a big battle for attention and it’s very messy, it’s very ugly. Whereas in the chemist, they all harmonise with each other in a much more beautiful way, which is kind of what goes in artwork, so all the drug companies – they’re not fighting each other, there’s a kind of unwritten law.
GB: When you’re in the back room of the chemist – not on the shelves.
DH: That is on the shelves – you can see it – when you go to the pharmacist, they’re always open because they’re always using them all the while. And I was looking behind the chemist, over his shoulder and seeing all these packages on the shelves.
GB: By and large you’ve got the commercial stuff in the front and the other stuff in the back.
DH: Yeah in the chemist, it’s fighting like it is in the supermarket to a much lesser extent.
JAKARTA – You would agree that the kitchen is incomplete without cupboards. Kitchen cabinets have many functions. In addition to storing plates, you can also store other eating and drinking utensils, various kinds of kitchen utensils, and spices.
Don’t forget, kitchen cabinets can also make the kitchen look more attractive and beautiful. Therefore, do not carelessly choose it. Let’s see tips for choosing the right kitchen cabinets below, launching I am Architecture Studio, Monday, March 21.
Find a model that fits your kitchen style
Kitchen cabinet designs have an important role when determining home decor and design. It doesn’t feel right if the interior has an industrial feel, but choose a cute shabby chic style kitchen cabinet. After all, the interior design and design of kitchen cabinets will affect the comfort and beauty of the kitchen at home. Therefore, make sure the selected kitchen cabinet model matches the concept and style of the home kitchen.
Adjust the size of the cupboard to the kitchen area
Check the size of the kitchen cabinets that will be purchased, whether in accordance with the placement location that you have planned in the kitchen or not. That is why, it is very important to know the details of the size of the cupboard before buying. In addition, if you want to place electronics next to kitchen cabinets, such as refrigerators or ovens, then there must be a gap between the two. This is so that the cabinet is not exposed to the heat flow of electronic devices and saves space.
You also have to leave enough space in front of the cupboard so that it can be opened perfectly, at least leave a distance of 50-100 cm. That way, you can access it more freely.
Cabinet Capacity
Kitchen cabinets are actually used to store dishes, but are also multifunctional to store other items, such as spoons, forks, thermos, jars, and kitchen utensils. It is very important to choose a cabinet that saves space and fits the required capacity. It is not recommended to choose a wardrobe with too much or too narrow space, as there is a risk of dropping items when trying to retrieve them.
Cabinet placement location
In order not to choose the wrong cupboard, you need to know the ideal location to put it in the kitchen. There are several choices of kitchen cabinets, such as cabinets with an opening in the middle or side hinges, there are also doors that open up. The difference in the model certainly affects the location of the placement.
However, to make it look neater and more organized, place the cabinet in an easily accessible position so as to facilitate the flow of activities in the kitchen, making cooking and cleaning more efficient. The cabinet can also be placed by hanging on the upper wall to save space.
Look for cabinets with low prices and good quality
In choosing home decor and furniture such as kitchen cabinets, price is a component that cannot be ignored. So, you should first determine the budget you have before buying. Thus, the buying process can also be easier because it fits the budget without having to sacrifice quality. If you’re on a budget, you might also consider custom cabinets to better fit your kitchen.
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